POOR, BUT PROUD.
[B? Telegraph.] Invercargill, August 1. At the inquest on the body of tho man McWatt, the evidence showed that deceased had refused offers of food from a near neighbor. The Coroner said be appeared to be of a proud, sensitive, and nervous disposition, shrinking from exposure of poverty and preferring to die rather than moke his necessities known. Such cases, although rare, were not altogether unknown. The case was a singular and extraordinary one, for certainly no man or woman in the colony need die of want in the midst of a populous district. The jury found that Archibald McWatt died of “ syncope or fainting fit brought on by want of nourishment.'' A [rider was appended expressing the jury’s regret that the deceased man did not make his destitute condition known to bis neighbors, a coarse that would have insured immediate succour.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2917, 1 August 1882, Page 2
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145POOR, BUT PROUD. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2917, 1 August 1882, Page 2
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